Uyghur Human Rights Project [Washington, DC]
18
September 2013
[…] Rumors,
Suspicion and Hysteria, a new report from the Uyghur Human Rights Project
(UHRP) details the events of late August and early September 2009 in which a
series of alleged pinprick attacks shook the regional capital of East
Turkestan, Urumchi. The little documented incident gave rise to a series of
human rights violations against the Uyghur people that demonstrate the
vulnerability of Uyghurs in contemporary China. Allegations that Chinese
officials did not investigate credible accounts of killings and beating of
Uyghurs during September 2009 are of particular concern. The lack of due
process in trials of Uyghurs alleged of conducting pinprick attacks also
indicate an absence of international human rights standards for Uyghurs in
China. […]